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COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION

EIN 95-3829219 PALM DESERT, CA

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Revenue 2023
$10,998,273
Expenses 2023
$4,068,930

Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1000
Street
43500 MONTEREY AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION IS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION BY ADVANCING THE COLLEGE OF THE DESERT THROUGH BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, SECURING PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT AND STEWARDING ASSETS

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SECURE PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT AND STEWARD ASSETS FOR THE COLLEGE OF THE DESERT

  • TO PROVIDE PROGRAMMATIC FUNDING TO COLLEGE OF THE DESERT AND EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLLEGE OF THE DESERT STUDENTS.

    Expenses $3,322,610 · Grants $1,491,337

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • William S Chunowitz

    CO PAST BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Barbara Fromm

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Diane Rubin

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Christine Anderson

    CO PAST BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Norma Castaneda

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Charles Townsend Vinco

    DIRECTOR (JULY-JAN)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Carol Bell Dean

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Tom Minder

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • James Greene

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Marge Dodge

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Joan Lamb

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Donna MacMillan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Jake Wuest

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Jane Saltonstall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Connie Lurie

    DIRECTOR (JULY-JAN)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Carol Fragen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Ed Gubman

    DIRECTOR (FEB-JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Paul Hinkes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Marlene O'Sullivan

    DIRECTOR (JULY-JAN)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • James Williams

    DIRECTOR (JULY-JAN)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Jaishri Mehta

    DIRECTOR (FEB-JUNE)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Barbara Foster Monachino

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Ruben Perez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $2,903
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $2,880
    Other
    $23
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Jenell Vandenbos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Dale Landon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,998,273
    Expenses
    $4,068,930
    Contributions
    $8,659,406
    Grants paid
    $1,491,337
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,477,705
    Expenses
    $3,202,927
    Contributions
    $2,566,405
    Grants paid
    $1,423,995

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,556,549
    Expenses
    $3,459,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,230,907
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $22,091,116
    Expenses
    $3,144,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,154,245
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,783,865
    Expenses
    $3,024,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,380,215
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,193,253
    Expenses
    $3,116,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,642,066
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,881,542
    Expenses
    $2,616,579
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,466,516
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,544,227
    Expenses
    $3,041,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,228,316
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,364,059
    Expenses
    $2,887,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,321,374

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • DESERT COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

    $592,525

    2023 TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO SPECIFIC COLLEGE OF THE DESERT DEPARTMENTS

  • DESERT COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

    $519,731

    2022 TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO SPECIFIC COLLEGE OF THE DESERT DEPARTMENTS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.